MANILA, (PNA) — De La Salle University (DLSU) will take a look on how American English pacifies the 20th century Filipino.
With this in mind, The Department of Literature of DLSU invites teachers and students to The Wars of Translation: American English, Colonial Education and Tagalog Slang, 1920s-1970s on September 25, 2013.
The lecture will be headed by Vicente L. Rafael a History and Southeast Asian Studies Professor from the University of Washington in Seattle.
He authored several works– Contracting Colonialism, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History and The Promise of the Foreign –in the Philippines
Officials said that the talk will contrast the nationalist critique of Renato Constantino that condemned the neo-colonization of the English language.
They said that they will use Nick Joaquin’s account of the history of Tagalog Slang as an evidence of the politics of language evading both colonial and nationalist accounts.